A 15-year-old girl with terminal cancer is smiling after her "bucket list" went viral on the internet and inspired an outpouring of support from around the world.
Support from celebrity tweeters including Justin Bieber and Katy Perry has generated so much exposure that almost everything Alice Pyne wants to do before she dies will be granted.
Alice's Hodgkin's lymphoma - cancer of the white blood cells - is spreading through her body and she may have just weeks to live. The girl, from the northwest English town of Ulverston, created a blog on Monday, "Alice's Bucket List", to catalogue her final days and talk about her final wishes.
"It doesn't look like i'm going to win this one. The cancer is spreading through my body," she wrote on her blog.
"It's hard because I gave it my all. And it's a pain because there's so much stuff I still want to do. Anyway, Mum always tells me that life is what we make of it."
Within days the blog was going viral and yesterday #alicebucketlist was one of the top trending topics on Twitter. Celebrities including Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Johnny Depp, Channing Tatum, footballer Rio Ferdinand and Ryan Seacrest helped spread the word about her plight.
On her list were things like swimming with sharks, encouraging people to become bone marrow donors, visiting Kenya, entering her labrador Mabel in a dog show, having a photo shoot with her friends, throwing a private cinema party, meeting the band Take That, staying in a caravan, going whale watching, buying a purple iPad, going to Cadbury World ("and eat loads of chocolate"), having a back massage and having her hair done.
Alice, who was diagnosed with cancer almost four years ago and has undergone extensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments, was inspired by 2008 movie The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. They play terminally ill patients who go on a road trip fulfilling their last wishes before they "kick the bucket".
By Wednesday in Britain Alice's plight had spread so far and wide that she was mentioned by an MP, John Woodcock, during question time.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said: "I am sorry to hear about the situation facing Alice and what she's going through, and our thoughts go out to her and her family."
On Thursday Alice published a new blog post saying she could now cross off most things from her list after countless strangers pledged their support.
"I'm off to see Take That this weekend, can you believe it?," she wrote.
"I am so excited and really can't wait, I just hope that I don't get ill or something daft. I've lived in PJs for about a year so mum is going to town to buy some things to bring back for me to try.
"It also looks like the other things I wished to do are being organised so thank you to everyone for that. I feel a very lucky girl."
But out of all the successes to come from her bucket list campaign, Alice wrote that she was happiest with the huge uptick in people pledging to join bone marrow donation schemes.
Some of her wishes - including travelling to Kenya and being a dolphin trainer - she will never be able to fulfil as she cannot travel outside Britain.
Alice makes clear in her blog that she was never seeking cash donations and only started the blog so she could share her final days with her friends and family.
She wrote that anyone who wanted to donate money could send it to the British charity Post Pals, which supports sick children, or sponsor her sister Milly who is running the Race for Life this weekend.
Alice and her family are attempting to respond to everyone who has written to her giving their best wishes. They now have a team of friends helping with the task.
"Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me," she wrote.
"I don't sleep very well and I sat up all night reading them as they came in from all over the planet, every single one, and they have made me smile so much so that is a good thing."
Cath Elliott, a feminist and trade union activist who almost deleted her blog after receiving a torrent of hate and abuse, wrote in The Guardian that Alice's bucket list reminded her of the internet's good side.
"It's shown that while sometimes the online world really can be a cesspit, it can also be a truly inspiring place, with people coming together from all over, united in a desire to actually do something good," she said.
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